Husband’s plea over British wife and toddler in Tehran jail

Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe was detained by Revolutionary Guards last AprilPA

The husband of a British mother jailed in Tehran has appealed directly to Iran’s president to help secure her release and to grant him a visa to visit his two-year-old daughter trapped in the capital.

Richard Ratcliffe has not seen his wife Nazanin, 38, a British-Iranian, or child Gabriella since April when they were stopped by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as they attempted to return to London after a holiday.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in jail in September after a secretive trial. She has been held in solitary confinement in Evin prison and at one point was suicidal. The authorities confiscated their daughter’s passport.

Ten months on Mr Ratcliffe said he still does not know the charges against his wife, who appeared…